I have Garmin 400c Hand Held gps for use on a boat - is there a wy of entering the co-ordinates in Degrees and minutes etc to take me to a specific hotspot ?? I have only been able to approximate the location on the maps and keep making adjustments for long. and lat. which is very slow thanks - steve [email protected]

SOURCE: GPS displays BNG on location

BNG stands for 'British National Grid'

1. Go to the Setup menu
2. Select Units
3. Change the Position Format to hddd°mm.mmm'

SOURCE: Garmin GPS 12 seems to be a few hundred yards out!

Go into your device and pull up the setup section. There should be a selection that needs to be checked called WAAS. When that is selected your accuracy should be +- 3 meters if I remember correctly. At any rate it will be much more accurate.

SOURCE: Garmin eTrex HC GPS Location settings set to TL

Owner's manual Page 42

Setup > Units > Position Format

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SOURCE: Entering waypoints manually

Notice that when you pull up the MARKed coordinates the yellow cursor is on the N/S letter rather than the number. Since a number is impossible there it won't let you enter one.

Use the rocker to move to the popup screens directional arrows to move to the digit you want to change. This will be easiest with the the RIGHT arrow at first; once you see the cursor it will make sense. Note I am talking about the popup's RIGHT square and not the rocker's RIGHT direction.